Stop Israel's imperialist aggression against the Palestinian people! For a just and democratic solution of the Palestine conflict!

Resolution of the ICOR, 29. July 2014

Stop Israel's imperialist aggression against the Palestinian people! For a just and democratic solution of the Palestine conflict!

The International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR) condemns the aggression of Zionist-imperialist Israel against Palestine and especially the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. More than 1000 Palestinians, especially women and children, have already been killed, 3000 injured and tens of thousands have lost their homes as a result of the brutal bombing, attacks from the sea and the deployment of ground troops. The Israeli government claims that they are conducting a limited “retaliatory strike“. Actually the military attacks had been prepared long beforehand with the backing of the USA and the EU, and only pretexts had been constantly searched in order to begin and justify an imperialist war against the Palestinian people. That is the provocative reaction of the Israeli government to the recently formed joint Palestinian government of Hamas and Fatah. Israel wants to obtain a strategic advantage from the crisis in the Middle East on the backs of the peoples. In violation of humanitarian law it is striving for a permanent occupation of the Gaza Strip. It needs territory and gas and for that purpose it is committing uninhibited war crimes of genocide against civilians.

We condemn the imperialist countries which support and defend Israel and in their own countries discriminate criticism of and protests against the state terror of the Zionist government as anti-Semitic and suppress them.

We condemn the support of Israel by imperialist powers, the propagandist lies about border protection, about the so-called “right of self-defense of Israel against terrorist attacks” and the line of justification of “divine right”. The clear aggressor is the Zionist state of Israel, which has occupied large parts of Palestine, carries out a brutal embargo against the Gaza Strip, allows new settlements on Palestinian territory etc. We also condemn the exertion of influence of the reactionary regional powers Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Islamist-fascist Iran (although these countries have no unified relation to Israel), which are trying to push through their regional power interests at the cost of the Palestinian people.

We condemn the anti-Semitic attacks and tendencies within the Palestinian liberation movement and in the movement for solidarity with the Palestinian people. Anti-Semitism, as well as Zionism, is a racist ideology in service of the capitalist order and aims at dividing the world's progressive and revolutionary forces and turning the people's masses against each other, especially the working people of Israel and Palestine. We reject the maneuvers aimed at causing confusion by demagogically equating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism.

Since the end of the 2nd World War, the communists and other revolutionaries have supported a just solution of the Palestine conflict which upholds the rights of Palestinians and Israelis in a spirit of friendship among the peoples. Today this demands a democratic “two-state solution“ with a sovereign Israeli and a sovereign Palestinian state. This is an intermediate step on the way to a joint democratic state of Palestine in which the Israeli and the Palestinian people live together in mutual respect and trust without discrimination and oppression. This can only be attained through the struggle for national and social liberation.

Along with Ukraine, the Middle East is a bone of contention in the imperialist rivalry for the redistribution of the spheres of power and influence and has become a dangerous trouble spot of the increased general threat of war. We call upon the workers, the women, the youth, all democrats and all peace-loving people to increase and intensify their protests, demonstrations and resistance, especially on the 6th of August, the Asian Anti-War Day, and on the 1st of September, the European Anti-War Day.

Stop the Israeli attacks upon the Gaza Strip!

For a democratic and just two-state solution on the way to a free democratic Palestine!

Against imperialism, Zionism, Arab reaction and Islamic fascism!

Solidarity with the struggle for national liberation and social emancipation in Palestine!